A new partnership between the European Space Agency and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, has been signed to forming the ExoMars program. An  aggressive launch schedule has the first mission…

New ‘Safe Mode’ Status of Curiosity Expected to be Brief There have been no new images from the rover due to a ground commanded safe mode on February 27th, 2013….

Hello friends of KnowledgeOrb. This post is a little off topic from the normal space and science topics we usually bring to you. I have been blogging here on KnowledgeOrb.com…

There is an old saying, he bit off more than he could chew. This could be the case with the concept being explored by SpaceX and their new rocket technology….

The Mars rover Curiosity is still not in normal science data collection mode since a memory error prompted the flight team to switch to the backup computer. Curiosity has two…

File this under interesting trivia. On March 2, 2013, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) entered its semiannual eclipse season, a period of three weeks when Earth blocks its view of…

Test Flight of Orbital’s Antares Rocket Scheduled for April 16-18 A test flight of Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Antares rocket from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport’s Pad-0A at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility…

The last few days have seen many space weather warnings and alerts. The root of all of these was activity on the sun resulting in a strong a coronal mass…